That's What Friends Aren't For
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2010 · Est. 2 hour read

That's What Friends Aren't For

Written & illustrated by Jim Benton

Part of the Dear Dumb Diary series

A secret diary reveals unexpected friendships and hilarious dilemmas.

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144 pages· 15,799 words· Est. 2 hour read
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Jamie Kelly's diary is a secret, but her life is anything but ordinary. Forced into friendship with Angeline, Jamie navigates a web of family drama and guilt-induced scenarios. Can she keep her sanity while ensuring puppies know their parents? Dive into her hilarious world where every page is a new adventure.

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Bestselling author Jamie Kelly is back with an all-new, all-funny diary! But she has no idea that anybody is reading it. So please, please, please don’t tell her.Dear Dumb Diary, So now I’m friends with Angeline. This is automatic friendship, and I have to just accept it and make the best of things. See, if I objected, then Aunt Carol might divorce Angeline’s uncle, sending both of them tumbling into a deep pit of depression for the rest of their lives, and Angeline could wind up feeling so guilty that she would have to go be locked up in an old dirty insane asylum for years and years, and Stinker’s puppies could grow up not knowing both their parents — and I couldn’t live with myself for doing something like that to a puppy.

At a glance
Format
Paperback
Pages
144
Words
15,799
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
930L
Themes & topics
Books about friendshipBooks about middle schoolBooks about diariesBooks about schoolBooks about growing up
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
5.8
F&P level
~V
AR points
2
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
134944
Publication
Published
January 1, 2010
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9780545116121

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